Example sentences of "[vb past] just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In John 's case , Bill charged just £120 . |
| 2 | Britain and Europe rated just 25pc and defence was rated as a serious issue by only 23pc . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S smallest baby Kelsey Oakes — who weighed just 1lb 3ozs when she was born nearly four months early — is finally home from hospital . |
| 4 | SO TINY : Kelsey weighed just 1lb 3ozs at birth |
| 5 | For some unaccountable reason the horses drawing the cart stopped just inches short of crushing him to death . |
| 6 | The real turning point occurred just north of Châlons , during September when , in one of the bloodiest battles of human history , over 200,000 men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | KPMG 's fee income to 30 September 1992 rose just 1% , from £484m to £488.8m , which compares with a 12.3% growth rate over the previous year . |
| 8 | Landing fee for me at Southend is thirty-odd pounds ; Troyes cost just £2.50 . |
| 9 | I picked up her pay packet once and she got just £45 for three nights ’ work . |
| 10 | The sold percentages of Christie 's and Sotheby 's in 1991 averaged just 71% even though reserves had been pushed 20% or so below the boom levels of 1988/89 . |
| 11 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 12 | Neverthless , most pollsters agree their firms have lost some of their glamour since the late 1980s when financial and media group MAI paid £16m for NOP in 1989 , a year it made just £400,000 profits . |
| 13 | The 80th anniversary factor is working here — last year , Book 2 , an identical set , made just £814 . |
| 14 | Both Yorkshire , which made a £13.1m profit last year , and Tyne Tees , which made just £200,000 , need to make big cost savings to support the bids . |
| 15 | The revelation came just hours before Warrington bomb victim 12-year-old Tim Parry died in a Liverpool hospital . |
| 16 | His arrest came just hours after he taunted police , ringing up a national newspaper to say he was the ‘ new Lord Lucan ’ and would never be caught . |
| 17 | The talks came just hours after the abrupt resignation of chairman Peter Hall , viewed by sacked workers as a hate figure throughout the five-month dispute . |
| 18 | Shares crashed to new lows in the City on the news , which came just hours after the release of Britain 's better than expected trade figures , though Britain is still well in the red , the latest deficit 's down to one point one billion dollars . |
| 19 | Mr Alasdair MacConachie 's appointment as a deputy lieutenant of County Durham came just days before his marriage today at St Cuthbert 's Church to Mrs Valerie Ashton . |
| 20 | The one exception came just seconds from half-time when the defence was slow to mop up the danger when Richardson 's corner was only parried , and Alan Dowd was in the right place to equalise . |
| 21 | Gatting , now 35 , vehemently denied the allegation , but lost his captaincy over the incident , which came just months after his much-publicised row with a Pakistani umpire . |
| 22 | Not supporting Mr Clinton is no liability in Texas : the president received just 37% of the state 's votes in 1992 , and in February he recorded the lowest-ever approval-rating among Texans for an incumbent president . |
| 23 | The no-warning bomb exploded just seconds before the end-of-school bell sounded at nearby Richmond Lodge — now part of Victoria College . |
| 24 | His appearance on Brightside 's stage was almost as dramatic the previous candidate withdrew just days before nominations closed . |
| 25 | But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf . |
| 26 | The board acted just weeks after GM disclosed the biggest loss in corporate history . |
| 27 | Coventry paid just £10,000 to bring wonder-kid Peter Ndlovu from Zimbabwe to Highfield Road . |
| 28 | Sheffield Wednesday boss Trevor Francis is hoping for the same kind of bargain with Tishkov as Ferguson discovered when he paid just £650,000 for Kanchelskis . |
| 29 | Wayne 's grandparents , Ken and Pat Peckham , paid just £1,700 for Champ whose marathon exploits quickly made him the people 's champion . |
| 30 | The accident happened just minutes before the usual Thursday night rush to late night drinking spots began . |